Connect with us

Search site

Menu

Main menu

Space

Science/Tech

Entrepreneurs have big plans for space. One is developing the first space hotel. Another is selling homesteads on Mars. Yet another is blasting people's ashes into the final frontier. And NASA is sketching its plans to build and permanently occupy a base on the moon by the year 2020. Dick talks to two astronauts who have been there. And they have lots of tales to tell.

Science/Tech

Tom Ward was a student in East Los Angeles when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made object to orbit the earth. The launch convinced him he had a future career in the space program. And that's where he met Dr. Alexander Rimski-Korsakov. Alex grew up at the same time Tom did, but in Russia. Also on the show: do more email addresses equal less spam? And, an adult gets diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome.

Life

Marvin Killgore is a meteorite hunter, collector and dealer. His hunts have taken him all over the world. In Siberia, he took his metal detector into the forest. On his way out, he saw tiger tracks covering his own. He tells Dick that the challenge is to not only find the meteorites, but to figure out how to get them home. Also on the show: a man finds a 3.92 white carat diamond on the ground. And, a corn maze that may just save a family farm.

Science/Tech

Back in 1962 when the space race was on, Georg Deutsch approached Steven Schwarcz in the lunch line at junior high and asked, "Do you want to start a rocket society?" That encounter started a relationship that would last for decades, span several rocket experiments, and see their launching of the first non-governmental satellite. Also on the show: Muhammad Ali's daughter Rasheda talks about coping with Parkinson's Disease.

Science/Tech

John Grunsfeld is an astronaut who just completed his fifth mission into space. He blasted off earlier this year aboard the Shuttle Atlantis to fix the ailing Hubble Telescope. A key part of the mission involved a space walk to tend to some delicate repairs to the telescope. The work was intricate and detailed: one mistake and the astronauts could put themselves and their team in jeopardy.